Ha ha ha, and I bet if a disaster worker came up and tried to use a menstrual pad to dress a wound (don’t laugh, I’ve done it and it works wonders, esp on horses) they’d be whining about how culture is feminizing them.

Actually, the very fact that I (and Tracy Clark-Flory and everybody she quotes) refer to women’s needs as “special needs” says it all. The default is still maleness. Our whole world is built around that. Men are normal, women are bizarre weirdos.

More than half the population is female, but our needs are still “special.” Menstruating is the lot of most humans, but it’s still “special.”

I think the MRA non-plus-ultra of stupid is the way they ignore the real rights issues men men face – prison rape, need for paid paternity leave, frat hazing, accommodations for single fathers of young children, the cultural forces of violentization of young men – this is just off the top of my head.

Of course the reason they don’t care about these issues is that they’re not a matter of men vs. women; they’re byproducts of the toxicity of patriarchy.

MRA’s are so stupid, they don’t even care about men. They only care about hurting women.

I think the MRA non-plus-ultra of stupid is the way they ignore the real rights issues men men face – prison rape

They do focus on prison rape, but only to make the point that it’s a far worse and far bigger problem than the rapes that women face. What they ignore, of course, is that women are actually at a higher risk of being raped behind bars than men (the difference is that women are typically raped by COs and other personnel, not fellow inmates). While the overall number of male prison rape victims is higher because there are far more men in prison than women, if we’re looking at the percentage of the prison population that has been raped while incarcerated, it’s clear that women are significantly more likely to be raped in prison. Funny how we generally never hear about that.